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Multiple refugee regimes govern the lives of forced migrants simultaneously but in an often conflicting way. As a mechanism of inclusion/exclusion, they tend to engender the violence they sought to dissipate. Protection and control channel agency through mechanisms of either tutelage and victimisation or criminalisation. This book contrasts multiple groups of refugees and refugee regimes, revealing the inherent coercive violence of refugee regimes, from displacement and expulsion, to stereotypification and exclusion in host countries, and academic knowledge essentialisation. This violence is international, national, society-based, internalised, and embodied - and it urgently needs due scholarly attention.

Across the pine forests and deserts of America, there are mock Middle Eastern villages, mostly hidden from public view. Containing mosques, restaurants, street signs, graffiti in Arabic, and Iraqi role-players, these villages serve as military training sites for cultural literacy and special operations, both seen as crucial to victory in the Global War on Terror. In her gripping and highly original ethnography, anthropologist Nomi Stone explores US military predeployment training exercises and the lifeworlds of the Iraqi role-players employed within the mock villages, as they act out to mourn, bargain, and die like the wartime adversary or ally. Spanning fieldwork across the United States and Jordan, Pinelandia traces the devastating consequences of a military project that seeks to turn human beings into wartime technologies recruited to translate, mediate, and collaborate. Theorizing and enacting a field poetics, this work enlarges the ethnographic project into new cross-disciplinary worlds. Pinelandia is a political phenomenology of American empire and Iraq in the twenty-first century

"This book illuminates the intersections of religion and gender within the development sector, exposing challenges in both policy and practice and suggesting implementable solutions. This book argues that a better understanding of the religion-gender nexus is needed by development sector practitioners, especially at a time when religious arguments are being used around the world to justify gender inequality and violence against women. The book situates the nexus in the context of the wider power balances dynamics in both donor and recipient countries, drawing on extensive qualitative research with senior gender personnel, religion advisors, and implementation partners from across the largest bilateral-development agencies. The nexus is considered from the grassroots level up to donor country politics and across key themes such as gender-based violence, reproductive rights, unpaid care and domestic work, and women's participation in leadership roles. The book concludes by offering implementable solutions for practitioners to address the religion-gender nexus in a more meaningful way. Bridging the gap between academic theory and day-to-day development practice, this book is an important reference for development practitioners, and for researchers from across development studies, gender studies and religious studies"--

Political discourse on immigration in the United States has largely focused on what is most visible, including border walls and detention centers, while the invisible information systems that undergird immigration enforcement have garnered less attention. Tracking the evolution of various surveillance-related systems since the 1980s, Borderland Circuitry investigates how the deployment of this information infrastructure has shaped immigration enforcement practices. Ana Muñiz illuminates three phenomena that are becoming increasingly intertwined: digital surveillance, immigration control, and gang enforcement. Using ethnography, interviews, and analysis of documents never before seen, Muñiz uncovers how information-sharing partnerships between local police, state and federal law enforcement, and foreign partners collide to create multiple digital borderlands. Diving deep into a select group of information systems, Borderland Circuitry reveals how those with legal and political power deploy the specter of violent cross-border criminals to justify intensive surveillance, detention, brutality, deportation, and the destruction of land for border militarization

1 Introduction and major propositions -- Part I Foundations -- 2 Production and labor -- 3 Probabilistic framework -- 4 Labor content – properties and postulates -- Part II Results -- 5 Law of decreasing labor content -- 6 Wages and class divisions -- 7 Limits to growth and accumulation -- Part III Futures -- 8 Limits to capitalist development -- 9 Open problems of transition -- Appendix A: Open Theoretical Problems -- Appendix B: Technical Appendix -- Glossary -- References -- Index. .

Einführung -- Offene Gesellschaften als Garanten für Lebenschancen -- Moralen, Moralisierungen und Landschaften -- Offene und Geschlossene Gesellschaften -- Landschaften als Folgen und Nebenfolgen der Feindschaft zur Offenen Gesellschaft -- … und dann wohl doch die Offene Gesellschaft mit ihren Landschaften -- Die Offene Gesellschaft und ihre Lebenschancen – ein Kondensat als Fazit.

The dawn of outrage -- Family separation -- Increasing outrage -- The colossal failure of reunification -- Detainment at border patrol stations -- Detainment in office of refugee resettlement facilities -- A horrifying reality -- The deaths of children -- Further harm -- Families in Mexico -- Refugees in the time of COVID-19 -- Seeking relief through the courts -- Seeking relief through Congress -- Recommendations.

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Foreword. Fukushima's Special Message -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- PART I. LEARNING FROM DISASTER -- Chapter 1. What Was Learned from 3.11 -- Chapter 2. Unfulfilled Promises: Why Structural Disasters Make It Difficult to "Learn from Disasters" -- Chapter 3. Fukushima Radiation Inside Out -- Chapter 4. Has Japan Learned a Lesson from the Fukushima Nuclear Accident -- Chapter 5. The Developmental State and Nuclear Power in Japan -- PART II. PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE AND PUBLIC TRUST -- Chapter 6. The Road to Fukushima: A US- Japan History -- Chapter 7. Media Capture: The Japanese Press and Fukushima -- Chapter 8. The Politics of Radiation Assessment in the Fukushima Nuclear Crisis Chapter 8. The Politics of Radiation Assessment in the Fukushima Nuclear Crisis -- Chapter 9. Nuclear Labor, Its Invisibility, and the Dispute over Low- Dose Radiation -- Chapter 10. Food and Water Contamination After the Fukushima Nuclear Accident -- Chapter 11. Suffering the Effects of Scientific Evidence -- PART III. POSSIBLE FUTURES -- Chapter 12. Building a Community- Based Platform for Radiation Monitoring After 3.11 -- Chapter 13. The Closely Watched Case of Iitate Village: The Need for Global Communication of Local Problems -- Chapter 14. Describing and Memorializing 3.11: Namie and Ishinomaki -- Chapter 15. Renegotiating Nuclear Safety After Fukushima: Regulatory Dilemmas and Dialogues in the United States -- Chapter 16. International Reactions to Fukushima -- Notes -- Bibliography -- List of Contributors -- Index -- Acknowledgments

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Setting the Stage: -- 2. Are Body- Worn Cameras a "Silver Bullet" Solution? -- 3. The Challenges and Limitations of Body- Worn Cameras -- 4. Understanding Body- Worn Camera Adoption: -- 5. Charting a Course for Body- Worn Cameras in the Twenty- First Century -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Authors

"Since the doi moi reforms in 1986, Vietnam has experienced a dramatic socioeconomic transformation. Lim examines the role of the state and its interaction with market forces in bringing this change about. Taking the motorcycle and banking industries as case studies, this book explores the dynamics between the state and transnational corporations in shaping the manufacturing and service sectors respectively. Vietnam, as one of Southeast Asia's quintessential latecomer economies with little prior experience of dealing with transnational corporations, has nevertheless been quite successful in maintaining some control over the impact of foreign direct investment. Yet, the learning outcomes remain highly uneven. In addition, Lim argues that Vietnamese advancement in both industries mirrors only partially the more generalized patterns of state-led development in East Asia's earlier batch of latecomer economies. Vietnam's case thus presents practical lessons on how to succeed in crafting and utilizing policy instruments to achieve domestic economic and technological upgrading. This book will be of great interest to scholars of political economy and industrial policy in East Asia, as well as to scholars and policy professionals analysing approaches to development strategy more broadly"--

"This book investigates the policies of the Thatcher, Major and Blair governments and their approaches towards concentration of economic and political power. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of contemporary British history, political economy and politics, as well as specific areas of study such as Thatcherism and New Labour"--

"This book maps the emergence of health in global development discourse and governance since 1990. It argues that health norms have emerged, diffused, and subsequently become internalised through the various direct and indirect negotiation processes that created the global development goals. Covid-19, Ebola, and HIV/AIDS are prime illustrations of the fact that health is supremely political. Governments - whether they are local, national, international, or multilateral - make decisions about their policy responses, coordinate their response, and channel the necessary resources. Such decisions are informed by local and global conditions, as well as sets of values, norms, and standards that determine policy and interventions. As states and regions become more interconnected, the politics of health are increasingly relevant to the sustainable future envisioned by global governance. This book explains how considerations of global health have come to inform and infuse the United Nations Development Agenda. It identifies processes, actors, institutions, and interactions in global health by analysing two related case studies: the Millennium Development Goals, and the Sustainable Development Goals. Providing an overview of, and insights about, the context of global development thinking and practice, the subtleties of global health, and of global health governance, this book is an innovative contribution to the literature. It is suitable for students and scholars of global health, development studies, and international relations"--